Aristaeus the Elder

Born: about 360 BC
in Greece
Died: about 300 BC

Aristaeus was a contemporary of Euclid and Euclid gave him great credit for a work Solid Loci , the Greek name for conics, which is now lost. The work of both Aristaeus and Euclid on conics was, almost 200 years later, further developed by Apollonius.